The main difference from past versions was the inclusion of a 3D match engine for the first time in the game's history. Other new features included the ability to have female managers and staff, a new press conference system, more in-depth feedback from your assistant manager and a more realistic transfer system.

The use of online-activation DRM utilised by Sports Interactive resulted in issues for consumers activating either online, or phone. This was the result of a well orchestrated DDoS attack launched upon activation servers and phone lines, resulting in many users on the Windows platform unable to activate and play.

On 17 December , Sports Interactive announced a deal with Arsenal FC to release an exclusive version of Football Manager , containing all official Arsenal squad player pictures, and an exclusive skin in Arsenal's colours.

Shortly following this announcement, Sports Interactive reinforced their pursuit of online retailers by offering Football Manager through eSellerate for the Mac OS X platform on 23 December.

This is the first incarnation of the game to be available to global users through online distribution. Football Manager has been hugely successful, managing to gain the number 1 spot in the gaming charts.

There have been many improvements made to FM10, including the following: FM was released on 5 November In a press conference in early September, the makers of the Football Manager series revealed a few new features in Football Manager These included the addition of a director of football, being able to give certain roles to other staff that managers would have to do themselves in previous games, taxes, a new way of making loan deals and the addition of Classic Mode where players could go through one season in eight hours without having to customize training or deal with team talk.

On 28 September , the release date was announced as 2 November If the game is pre-ordered, a beta version of the game will be available two weeks prior to the 2 November, with any saved data being able to be transferred to the release version.

New national team was included, South Sudan national football team. In August , the Sports Interactive official website unveiled the main tweaks and upgrades to be added in "Football Manager ", the most noticeable being the decision to release a simultaneous version for the Linux operating system.

Among the other changes announced were extended options in transfer and contract negotiations as well as player conversations, the ability to play with more than just three nations loaded in Classic Mode, a tactical overhaul and improvements to the 3D match engine.

Studio Director and long-time Football Manager lead Miles Jacobson also announced that for a week in mid-August he would announce one new feature every day via his Twitter feed, the first feature being the ability to arrange testimonial matches.

On 13 September , the release date was announced as 31 October If the game is pre-ordered, a beta version of the game will be available two weeks prior to the 31 October, with any saved data being able to be transferred to the release version.

The release introduced a "Dynamics" team morale system, which allows managers to see team hierarchies and a more in depth team cohesion rating.

A Nintendo Switch version was released on April 13, This was Sports Interactive's first ever game for a handheld console.

The game was designed to be more similar in feel and play to earlier Sports Interactive products - being much faster in nature, while retaining the feeling of being a realistic simulation.

In April , the game became available on the iOS products. The iOS version of the game is very different in nature to that on the PSP and it contains a wholly new UI because of the touch screen nature of those devices.

In April , the game was also made available on Android devices. The Android version of the game is very similar in nature to the iOS version.

In , a new 2D match engine was introduced for iOS and Android devices, as well as an opportunity to purchase an "in-game editor".

In , football manager mobile is ranked 10 on paid games. Released on 4 November , Football Manager Live had its roots set in the Football Manager series, but was designed specifically as a massively multiplayer online game.

The future of the series and many other matters were discussed with a number of fans who decided to show up for the event.

On 14 April , it was announced that Football Manager Live would be discontinued after all 'Gameworlds' Servers completed their next season 28 day period - due around the end of May Football Manager has been recognized by real-life football clubs as a source for scouting players.

In , Everton FC signed a deal with Sports Interactive allowing them to use the game's database to scout players and opposition. A video documentary entitled Football Manager: Football Manager celebrated its twentieth birthday in the summer of , and to celebrate this milestone Back Page Press released a book including interviews with the creators and players that became legends in-game.

It was formerly the best-known department of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , a sports club whose members also participate in athletics, gymnastics, basketball and other sports including the RTHC Bayer Leverkusen rowing, tennis and hockey.

In the football department was separated from the sports club and is now a separate entity formally called Bayer 04 Leverkusen GmbH.

Eventually this contributed to a split within the club: SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen took with them the club's traditional colours of red and black, with the gymnasts adopting blue and yellow.

Through this period, and into the s, SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen played third and fourth division football. SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen would not return to the upper leagues until , just one season before the formation of Germany's new professional league, the Bundesliga.

The next year saw the club in the Regionalliga West , tier II, where their performances over the next few seasons left them well down the league table.

SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen made something of a breakthrough in by winning the division title, but was unable to advance through the playoff round to the first division.

The club was relegated again in , but made a quick return to what was now called the 2. Bundesliga after just one season spent in the third division.

Four years later, the club handily secured a place in the Bundesliga to start to play there in the —80 season.

By the mids, SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen had played its way into the upper half of the league table and was well-established there by the end of the decade.

It was during this time, in , that the two-halves of the club that had parted ways over a half century earlier were re-united as TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen e.

The new club took red and white as its colours. In addition to becoming an established Bundesliga side, the club earned its first honours with a dramatic win in the UEFA Cup.

Down 0—3 to Espanyol after the first leg of the final, Bayer Leverkusen drew even in the return match and then captured the title on penalty kicks, 3—2.

That same year, long-time Bayer Leverkusen executive Reiner Calmund became the general manager of the club. This is regarded as one of the most important moves in the club's history, as Calmund ushered in a decade and a half of the club's greatest successes through shrewd, far-sighted player acquisitions.

The three players would become instant crowd favourites, and make significant contributions to the team. Calmund also established groundbreaking contacts in Brazilian football , befriending Juan Figer, one of Brazil's most powerful player agents.

The club also signed charismatic players, such as Bernd Schuster , and Rudi Völler , helping to ensure the team's popularity and growing success.

This proved so popular with the fans that, very shortly thereafter, the team reverted to its "retro" colours of red and black, colours used on all home jerseys ever since.

Daum was later to be famously fired for a cocaine scandal that also cost him his ascent to the role of the Germany national team coach.

The team earned a series of four second-place finishes from to The finishes of and were heart-breaking for supporters as on both occasions the team had the Bundesliga title within its grasp.

In , Bayer Leverkusen needed only a draw against SpVgg Unterhaching to win the title, but an own goal by Michael Ballack helped send the team to a crushing 2—0 defeat, while Bayern Munich clinched the title with a 3—1 victory over Werder Bremen.

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